There is hope in Michigan. After our shootings in Oxford High School and Michigan State University, our Democrat-led (after 40 years) Congress has eleven gun safety bills up for the vote. I was heartened to see Michigan NRA members and Michigan gun owners speak to our state Congress in FAVOR of gun reform!
We passed a gun measure here in Oregon, but an eastern Oregon judge has held it up. There are some gun measures in the legislature, but as usual, Rs oppose them and then cry about all the gun violence, particularly in Portland. I just read a very long article yesterday in the Atlantic about all the violence and militias and Portland figures heavily in the article. It is long, but worth the read and I believe it is the cover story. It did not make me feel better about getting this deadliness under control.
It's difficult when hopes are dashed by politicized courts. Fortunately, we also have a Democrat attorney general in Michigan, and a 4-3 majority on our State Supreme Court, so that's one less thing to concern us. You can bet we're gonna get some legislation passed before the 2024 election!
The Oregon Supreme Court is not R, but has declined to interfere until this goes to trial. The people suing picked the eastern Oregon judge on purpose as judges are elected and he would soon be out of a job if he had not stayed the measure. It may at some point become law, but in the meantime the killing continues and everyone throws up their hands and says what can we do. The answer is obvious, but there are enough Rs around to make it difficult.
However, I am finding that much of what happened in the Nineties, well beyond, but including, militias, was almost a dress rehearsal for the apocalyptic events of the last ten years.
They were beaten back for some time, but I don't think their ideas were reformed by the horror of OKC.
There is hope in Michigan. After our shootings in Oxford High School and Michigan State University, our Democrat-led (after 40 years) Congress has eleven gun safety bills up for the vote. I was heartened to see Michigan NRA members and Michigan gun owners speak to our state Congress in FAVOR of gun reform!
We passed a gun measure here in Oregon, but an eastern Oregon judge has held it up. There are some gun measures in the legislature, but as usual, Rs oppose them and then cry about all the gun violence, particularly in Portland. I just read a very long article yesterday in the Atlantic about all the violence and militias and Portland figures heavily in the article. It is long, but worth the read and I believe it is the cover story. It did not make me feel better about getting this deadliness under control.
It's difficult when hopes are dashed by politicized courts. Fortunately, we also have a Democrat attorney general in Michigan, and a 4-3 majority on our State Supreme Court, so that's one less thing to concern us. You can bet we're gonna get some legislation passed before the 2024 election!
The Oregon Supreme Court is not R, but has declined to interfere until this goes to trial. The people suing picked the eastern Oregon judge on purpose as judges are elected and he would soon be out of a job if he had not stayed the measure. It may at some point become law, but in the meantime the killing continues and everyone throws up their hands and says what can we do. The answer is obvious, but there are enough Rs around to make it difficult.
That is an outstanding point, James.
However, I am finding that much of what happened in the Nineties, well beyond, but including, militias, was almost a dress rehearsal for the apocalyptic events of the last ten years.
They were beaten back for some time, but I don't think their ideas were reformed by the horror of OKC.